A little shiver ran down my spine. He’d gone to some effort to set this up, and I was enjoying it already. The lack of sight just seemed to sharpen ...y other senses, and I tried to work out where in the room I was. “Don’t move,” he said softly, and I stood still, swaying slightly. I didn’t feel quite steady, and almost toppled over when I felt his hand on my foot, slipping off my left shoe. I steadied myself on his arm while he removed the other. The carpet felt warm and soft under my bare. ” I’d stood, rigid, my hands feeling awkward and limp at my side, unsure how to react, her action so alien to me. She’d smiled in amusement. “Relax, Lightfoot. I’m not going to assault you!”It left me shaken. I’d liked her hug and was finding it harder and harder to remain distanced from her, impartial, professional. Under any other circumstances, if she was older, Callie was the type of female I’d find very attractive.Wednesday evening, two days before I was due to be relieved, we took an. There is a local estate agent with a reputation for being a bit of a ladies man and I know that Lucy is intrigued because her friend succumbed to him during a house viewing and repeated it a few times afterwards in a few houses.I decided to set Lucy up so I went to see him and told him that I wanted to get our house valued. Mick said “No problem, when are you around?”I ask him if he could be discrete as I had something to say and he said “yes, of course”Knowing that he is a married man, I told. “Who is it?” Aiden’s mother called from further inside the house.“It’s uh…” Aiden trailed off. Susan giggled to herself, realizing that she’d never actually given him her name. The extent of their previous verbal interaction had only been telling Aiden to get the fuck out of her house.“Susan Elroy,” Susan called past Aiden’s shoulder. “From next door. Your new neighbor.”“Oh, Susan!” Aiden’s mother exclaimed. “Just give me a sec and I’ll be right there.”“You aren’t going to say anything, are.